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How VPN and Proxy Bypass Attempts Are Detected
Kids quickly learn that VPN apps promise to beat content filters. Here's how the gateway spots those attempts and what happens next.
Reviewing an Access Request: Allow Once, 15 Minutes, or Always
Each request comes with a menu of decisions that trade convenience against permanence. Here's when to pick each one.
How Content Filtering Works
Guardian-CORR inspects every DNS lookup leaving your home network and compares it against category rules. Here's the full path a request takes.
Enforcing SafeSearch Across Search Engines
Search engines have their own mature-content filters that kids can switch off in one tap. Here's how the network keeps them locked on.
Access Requests: Letting Kids Ask Before You Decide
Blocking is only half the system — the other half is a fast, fair way for kids to ask for exceptions. Here's how the request flow works end to end.
Age Tiers Explained: Child, Young Adult, and Adult
Every profile is built on one of three age tiers, each with its own starting rules. Here's what each tier blocks by default and how they differ.
Blocking or Allowing Specific Websites
Category rules cover whole themes, but sometimes you need one site handled individually. Here's how custom allow and block entries work.
Customizing Category Rules for Each Age Group
Every family draws the line differently. Learn how to block, allow, or keep the default for any category, per age tier, from the filtering page.
What Your Child Sees When a Site Is Blocked
Blocked requests don't fail mysteriously — they land on a clear page explaining the block. Here's what it says and how the built-in ask-a-parent flow works.
Why Gambling Sites Are Blocked by Default
Every age tier blocks gambling out of the box. Here's the reasoning, and why network-level blocking matters more for gambling than most categories.
Weekly Family Reports
Family+ households receive a weekly email digest of blocked events, alerts, and activity trends. Here's what the report covers and how to use it.
Protecting Android Phones and Tablets
Android devices are fully covered on your Guardian network, with a couple of settings worth knowing. Here's the short guide for Android households.
Game Consoles: PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch
Consoles browse, stream, and chat like computers — but can't run parental apps. Here's how to cover PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch at the network level.
Email Notifications for Blocked Sites
You choose which events reach your inbox, and each parent picks their own settings. Here's how notification preferences work and how to tune them.
Pausing the Internet for the Whole Home
The Pause Internet switch in the portal header cuts every profile's connection in one tap. Here's what it covers and when to use it.
Reading the Activity Log
The activity log records blocked and flagged events across all profiles. Here's how to read it, filter it, and turn it into useful conversations.
Setting Up Bedtime Schedules
A bedtime schedule takes a profile's devices offline at night and back on in the morning, automatically. Here's how to configure one that works.
Understanding and Acknowledging Alerts
Alerts are the events that genuinely deserve your attention, from VPN attempts to unknown devices. Here's what each alert type means and how to respond.
Pausing One Profile or Device Without Affecting Others
Sometimes one child needs to go offline without punishing the whole house. Here's how targeted pause works at the profile and device level.
Smart TVs and Streaming Devices
TVs have no parental-control ecosystem worth trusting — which is exactly where network filtering shines. Here's how to protect the biggest screen in the house.
Custom Schedules for School Days and Weekends
Bedtime is just the start — schedules can carve out homework hours, dinner hours, and weekend windows. Here's how to build a weekly rhythm.
Protecting iPhones and iPads
Apple devices are the most common first assignment in a Guardian household. Here's what network protection covers on them and where Screen Time fits.
Chromebooks and School Laptops
School devices arrive with their own management rules. Here's how Guardian-CORR coexists with school-managed Chromebooks and what to check.
How Profiles Differ From Devices
New users often ask whether to organize rules around people or hardware. Here's why profiles are the backbone and devices are just members.
What the Weekly Report Doesn't Show
Reports and logs show filtered destinations, not private conversations. Here's the line between visibility and surveillance in Guardian-CORR.
Your Data and Privacy
Guardian-CORR sees the destinations your devices contact — and we treat that as sensitive. Here's exactly what's stored, what's never collected, and who can see it.
Managing Your Household Settings
Household settings cover your account, Wi-Fi, gateway status, and billing in one place. Here's a tour of what each section controls.
Keeping Your Kids' Devices From Hopping Networks
A child with a second Wi-Fi path — a hotspot, a neighbor, an old router — has left your filtering behind. Here's how to close those side doors.
Talking to Your Kids About the Rules
The technical controls work better when the household understands them. Here's how to present filtering, schedules, and access requests to your kids.
What Happens If Your Subscription Lapses
If a payment fails or a plan ends, protection doesn't vanish instantly. Here's the grace period, what changes, and how to restore everything.
Using Guardian-CORR With OS-Level Controls
Apple Screen Time, Google Family Link, and the gateway each solve a different problem. Here's how to run them together without conflicts.
Family vs. Family+: Which Plan Is Right for You?
Both plans run the same gateway and the same filtering engine. Here's what the Family+ upgrade actually adds and how to decide.
Why a Site Changed Categories Overnight
The same website can be blocked on Monday and allowed on Tuesday without you changing anything. Here's how category classification evolves and what to do.
Do I need to install anything on my kids' devices?
No — protection happens at the network level through the gateway.